Tycho Christoffer Jæger (25 June 1819 – 31 January 1889) was a Norwegian painter.

Biography

Tycho Christoffer Jæger was born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

as a son of the first cousins, shoemaker Tycho Christoffer Jæger and Øllegaard Jæger. He was an uncle of

Henrik Jæger Henrik Jæger (4 January 1854 – 17 December 1895) was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic and playwright. He was born in Bergen as a son of sailmaker Herman Jæger (1824–1871) and Birgitte Pedersen. He was a nephew of Tych ...

. From September 1870 he was married to Bergithe Steendahl (1850–1932). He painted between 1841 and 1889, almost exclusively

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. He studied partly in

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, in the 1840s. He also travelled in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and lived in Bergen and

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after taking his education. ''

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'' called two of his paintings "among the most peculiar to be created in contemporary Norwegian art".

References

1819 births 1889 deaths Artists from Bergen 19th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian expatriates in Denmark Norwegian male painters 19th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub